Improvement in tag-labels



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Leners Pme Na.1.o2,461, dated Apr-'az 2o, 1870.

v IMPROVEMENT IN TAG-LABELS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part Aof the same.

l'o all whom it indy concern:

Be it known that I, DENNIS D. FOLEY, ofthe city of Washington, District of' Columbia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Erasing-Tags; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view ot' the tag and case.

Figure 2 is a sectional view of the same.

The nature of my invention consists in constructing a tag which may be written on bya pencil, and erased by the application of' moisture, without subjecting the tag to the danger ot' having the Writing thereon removed by accident.

This tag is adapted to general usage, but more particularly to mail-bag service, for, after it is once fastcned to the bag, it need not be removed or displaced,

A but may b'e continually used, and the niark thereon erased at pleasure any'nuinber of times, and remarked again without mutilating o'r displacing the tag, thereby obviating the trouble, loss of time, and expense incurred in detaching the tag from the bag, and subjectiu g the service to the substitution of another every time the bag is used.

That others skilled in the art lnay understand the Aconstruction and operation ot my invention, I will describe it more particularly.

A is the case which contains the tag and protects itfroni accident.

Bis the tag, coated on each sidewith a silicated surface, from which a pencil-mark may be removed at pleasure by drawing a moist linger over the surface.

. C is the rubber spring, attached inside the case to its head by a hook, or any other convenient way, and also to the tag. This rubber spring retains the tag in its position.

D is the projection in the inside of the case that prevcntsthctag from being drawn out beyond a corresponding projection, E, on the tag.

The case may be made of any suitable material. Instead of connecting the caseand tag with a rubber spring, a spiral or main spring may be used with more lasting etl'ect, but this will be by far more expensive than the rubber.

. It may be convenient to hold 'the tag in position when drawn out for erastu'e o1' marking. `In that case .I would suggest that another projection near the head 

